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I am having problems with Captcha. It used to work fine, but after 2.2.3 upgrade I can't make the letters to appear.FreeSerif.ttf is uploaded to the root of the system and appropriate link is added to config file.I checked my server, it has gd installed. Have a look and try to register at http://saliniana.com.ba

Anyone with an idea what to do?

Nermin

Last edited by snermin on Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I'm now just getting a blank page when I click the 'Register' link on your site. Are you having other problems besides the Captcha issue? Regarding Captcha -- I would double-check that the other configuration lines in config.inc.php are not only set to reasonable settings, but are also uncommented.

I struggled for about an hour to figure out how to enable captcha. I checked php.ini, I ran phpinfo() to confirm it was built with gd and font support and was still at a loss. There were only two things remaining, now I have success.

1 - Installing freeserif.ttf fonts. I assume you could point your config.inc.php file to another other .ttf file, but I went to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/freefont/ and downloaded the latest ttf bundle and unzipped it into the folder specified in the OJS config.inc.php location setting for fonts (in captcha setting). I don't think the fonts were the main problem, but I fixed it anyway and thought you might like to see what I did.

2 - But that's not all I finally triple-checked my config file and found a duplicated [captcha] section - I had only turned on captch in the first section, so the second nullified my change I'm sure this is a leftover of my various patches and upgrades over the past couple years - but once I removed the second section everything worked!

Hi James and Alec,I am trying 2.3 version of the OJS.But I was not see ANNOUNCEMENTS pluings. Is there Announcements plugins in the 2.3 version?And also I was see database error during the database import (from 2.1.1 to 2.3).

And also, I was not create our journal old (template) style in the new common.css. There are compex relationship common.css, vanilla.css and also rightsidebar.css.Is there ay way use old style???

Regarding the font location -- doublecheck that the location you gave is in fact correct. You give two paths in your response: /httpdocs/freefont/FreeSans.ttf and /usr/hosts2/domains/ilahiyatstud091/www.ilahiyatstudies.org/httpdocs/freefont/FreeSans.ttf. I suspect that the latter is actually the correct path, but please again doublecheck it.

Regarding the Announcements issue: announcements actually isn't a plugin functionality, it's in the core. You can enable it in Journal Management -> Setup Step 4.4. (I would also suggest going through all setup steps again to refamiliarize yourself with the configuration options, and to see any new options.)

Regarding the css issue: IIRC, there were a number of large changes to the css from 2.1.1 to 2.2. You will likely have to spend some time reimplementing your old style. OJS 2.3 does come with an updated Vanilla theme, which you can still use.

Regarding the database error: what do you see? Is it the error that you posted to the bottom of your last post? How are you doing the upgrade?

Regarding the database error: have you also tried to upgrade your database following the instructions in docs/UPGRADE? If you are upgrading from an old release of OJS, you have to also upgrade the database -- just moving it over won't work.